Re: [MiKTeX] initexmf.EXE: No formats.ini exists

[Ulrike F. <li...@ni...>]

am Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009 um 03:31 schrieb Paul, Brent S :


> I have installed MikTeX 2.7 on a Windows XP 64-bit machine.  This
> is the basic installation.  When I try to run latex on
> my files, which worked perfectly fine on a Windows XP 32-bit
> machine running MikTeX 2.5, it does not produce a DVI file. 
> Instead I get this error:

> c:/progra~2/MikTeX_2.7/miktex/bin/latex.exe     bsp_phd.tex
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (MiKTeX 2.7)
> initexmf.EXE: No formats.ini exists.
> I can't find the default format file!

> I've checked and the formats.ini file exists.  Does anyone know
> what the problem is?  Thanks in advance.

Last time I heard about this problem was in 2007 (you can find
postings in the help forum and in the bug database) and the cause was
an installation in an unusual path. But it could also be that one of your
formats.ini is corrupted (normally there should be two: One in the
Install-root and one in UserConfig).

Try to add a new format e.g. testpdflatex in miktex->settings->tab
formats, copy the entries from another format. Check if the entries of
this new format are added to the formats.ini in UserConfig and if you
can build the format. If this fails too you will probably have to make
a trace to get more informations (http://www.miktex.org/diagnosing).



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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Ulrike Fischer